Since establishing Glavovic Studio in 1999, Margi G. Nothard has made an impact on communities through resilient and socially conscious architecture, art, and urban design. As Founder and Design Director, her studio has produced a diverse portfolio of projects – affordable housing, large-scale parks, and commercial spaces, museums, urban interventions, and public art commissions. Her contemplative, broad-based work explores complex social, cultural, and environmental conditions within unique landscapes, such as Florida and California.

She believes that architecture is for the public at large as much as the end user, should transcend prescriptive programming and maximize design innovation. Since the founding of Glavovic Studio twenty-four years ago she has directed the design of over one-hundred projects, has won multiple architecture, urban design, sustainability, and preservation awards and has been recognized both nationally and internationally in publications including Abitare, Architectural Record, Archinect, Metropolis, Braun and Taschen, Culture, Objekt and others. Her engagement in the community goes beyond the studio through teaching, boards participation in mentorship programs, public lectures, art and architecture exhibitions, and guided tours. Born in Harare, Zimbabwe and growing up in Durban, South Africa she is inspired and influenced by the landscape and nature that surrounded her and the profound urgency for social and environmental equity – seen in Glavovic Studio’s passion- ate commitment to long-term environmental stewardship and affordable housing.